7 U.S.C. § 1860: Federal irrigation, drainage…

Summary

For three years starting May 28, 1956, any crop the Secretary of Agriculture says is in surplus cannot get federal crop loans or farm payments if it is grown on newly irrigated or drained land in a federal irrigation or drainage project unless that land grew that crop before May 28, 1956. The Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture must put rules in all new irrigation, drainage, or flood-control contracts to make sure this happens. For the same three years, surplus crops and lands reclaimed by new flood-control projects cannot get soil-bank or price-support benefits. By October 1 each year, the Secretary of Agriculture must list which commodities are in surplus for the next crop year. A “federal irrigation or drainage project” means projects covered by the federal reclamation laws or by laws the Department of Agriculture runs.

Title 7, §1860

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(a)Restriction on crop loans or farm payments or benefits

For a period of three years from May 28, 1956, no agricultural commodity determined by the Secretary of Agriculture in accordance with subsection (c) to be in surplus supply shall receive any crop loans or Federal farm payments or benefits if grown on any newly irrigated or drained lands within any Federal irrigation or drainage project hereafter authorized unless such lands were used for the production of such commodity prior to May 28, 1956.

(b)Contract provisions; ineligibility for benefits

The Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture shall cause to be included, in all irrigation, drainage, or flood-control contracts entered into with respect to Federal irrigation, drainage, or flood-control projects hereafter authorized, such provisions as they may deem necessary to provide for the enforcement of the provisions of this section. For a period of three years from May 28, 1956, surplus crops grown on lands reclaimed by flood-control projects hereafter authorized and the lands so reclaimed shall be ineligible for any benefits under the soil-bank provisions of this Act and under price support legislation.

(c)Determination and proclamation of surplus agricultural commodities

On or before October 1 of each year, the Secretary of Agriculture shall determine and proclaim the agricultural commodities the supplies of which are in excess of estimated requirements for domestic consumption and export plus adequate reserves for emergencies. The commodities so proclaimed shall be considered to be in surplus supply for the purposes of this section during the succeeding crop year.

(d)“Federal irrigation or drainage project” defined

For the purposes of this section the term “Federal irrigation or drainage project” means any irrigation or drainage project subject to the Federal reclamation laws (Act of June 17, 1902, 32 Stat. 388, and Acts amendatory thereof or supplementary thereto) in effect at the date of the adoption of this amendment and any irrigation or drainage project subject to the laws relating to irrigation and drainage administered by the Department of Agriculture or the Secretary of Agriculture.

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

References in Text

The soil-bank provisions of this Act, referred to in subsec. (c), probably means those provisions of act

May 28, 1956, ch. 327, known as the Agricultural Act of 1956, which enacted the Soil Bank Act, and which were classified to subchapters I to III (§ 1801 et seq.) of chapter 45 of this title. The Soil Bank Act was repealed by Pub. L. 89–321, title VI, § 601, Nov. 3, 1965, 79 Stat. 1206. For complete classification of the Soil Bank Act to the Code prior to repeal, see Tables. Act of

June 17, 1902, referred to in subsec. (d), is act

June 17, 1902, ch. 1093, 32 Stat. 388, which is classified generally to chapter 12 (§ 371 et seq.) of Title 43, Public Lands. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see

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note set out under section 371 of Title 43 and Tables. The date of the adoption of this amendment, referred to in subsec. (d), probably means the date of enactment of the Agricultural Act of 1956, which was May 28, 1956.

§1860 Federal Irrigation, Drainage, and Flood-control Projects